Happy Cool Thursday! :) a nice visit with my brother for his birthday :) a nice peaceful day :)

Happy Cool Thursday! :) We're enjoying a nice relaxing, and peaceful day :) Happy birthday to my brother Charlie! :) my mom, dad, Holly ,and i visited with Charlie today :) we brought him some gifts, a ppperidge farm cake, cards, and money :) he loves his gifts :) he's doing ok :) he's been having some ups and downs this year with his health ,but thankfully is doing better :) we gave him gifts, cards, and money :) he was so happy we visited :) we saw some birds, and a squirrel visiting his yard :) it was a great visit :) We're so happy and excited for the blossoming fall season spirit, as the season gets closer :) it's been a really sweet stretch of days :) The kids are doing well, with the start to the new school year :) we're so proud of the kids :) we've got some rain in our area, it's really replenishing rainfall, for the plants, and nature :) We're so thankful for the rain :) it's been a big organizing and decorating week :) We're so happy and excited! :) Holly and i are having an awesome time organizing, bringing out decorations, and decorating our living room, and my halloween town for the upcoming new season :) it's coming along really well and looks BOO-eautiful :) i'm going to be focusing in on installing lights in my halloween town soon :) i love putting lots of detail into halloween town :) We have lots more decorating plans :) We look forward to picking some gourds to put on our coffee table :) We've got a super fun, happy countdown to fall season themed baking friday adventure planned for tomorrow :) it's gonna be so much fun baking :) We've been hanging out today :) i'm enjoying a blueberry iced coffee :) cheers! :) football season begins tonight :) We're very excited to tune into some football, and cheering on our teams on sunday, and each week :) We're enjoying the month, so very much and there's so much more to look forward too :) We feel very blessed, thankful, and appreciative, to have you all in our lives, and to be able to share in and celebrate special joys of the season with you all :) Tomorrow's baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's almost time to bake! bake! bake! :)



Hi angel friends! :) happy countdown to fall season! :) We're getting ready for the stretch run of these golden days of summer, and getting ready to blossom into the new season :) Cheers! and happy friendship smiles :) my family, Holly ,and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a peaceful day :) it's been a really sweet stretch of days this week :) We've been enjoying some nice organizing ,decorating, as we've been settling into the month of September :) We're gearing up for a super fun baking friday advenrture tomorrow, and also next friday, with the big baking friday 13th birthday/anniversary : )it's gonna be lots of fun celebrating :) The sounds of September, and Late summer, is all around : )that sound of the crickets, and the calmness of the early mornings, and seeing scarecrows in our front yard :) it's that time of the year, for the countdown to fall season :) We're very happy and excited to blossom into all of the seasonal festivities and traditions with everyone :) Thank you all for making each day, very special, and memorable :) i'm gonna be placing an order on amazon soon, for some new cards, and also some gifts, plus i'm thinking of buying a cool new funkos "funkoween" advent calendar with 13 days of halloween countdown :) i'd love to add it to my collection :)



There's so much more to look forward too, as we get ready to spirit soar into the fall season :) This morning, we had a sweet peaceful new day, rising and shining :) We've been enjoying the week, very much :) Thank you angel friends, so very much for your wonderfully heart warming comments :) We're so happy, and delighted everyone's been enjoying my journals, and new pictures, nature, and our decorating pictures :) Holly and i had so much fun displaying our scarecrows yesterday, and we look forward to putting more fall season decorations in our front yard soon :) We've got some popcorn cobs drying, and the cornstalks will make for great seasonal decor too :) it's an awesome time, as we get ready to transition, from summer to fall :) we've got so many more decorating plans :) it's like a flourish of spirit within us, this time of the year :) We'll be picking some gourds, our halloween pumpkin, and maybe a 2nd halloween pumpkin too as it just began to grow :) We love hearing about your seasonal festivities, traditions, decorating, and sharing ours :) it's awesome spirited fun :)



Around mid-morning, my mom, dad, Holly ,and i went to visit with my brother Charlie :) it's his birthday :) We wished him a happy birthday :) he welcome us into his home :) he's got some nice morning glory flowers blossoming near his deck :) my brother's had some ups and downs with his health this year, but is thankfully doing better :) we're so glad, and thankful :) we gave my brother some nice gifts, his favorite pepperidge farm cake, snacks, treats, cards, and money :) he's very happy we visited :) We got to see his cat "Fudge" and we saw some birds, and a squirrel visiting his yard :) he has some cool bird feeders and a bird bath filled with dried corn, the squirrel was right in the middle of the bird bath eating corn :) We enjoyed a nice visit :) it was great seeing my brother :)



As the new day was blossing this morning, we got some extra sleep this morning, i slept in until 5:28am this morning, i usually wake up around 5am. i think i needed the extra sleep, i've been doing lots of lifting, with the organizing this week. :) Holly got extra sleep too :) i enjoyed some nice time here on DS this moring, writing to friends, and was getting ready for my early morning nature walk :) i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside :) it was really quiet in our yard and neighborhood this morning, i heard some birds off in the distance :) i think our nature friends are sensing, the upcoming changing of the seasons :) the hummingbirds are still around, they've been enjoying the nectar in the feeders :) i put lots of goodies in the bird sanctuary area in our yard :) i saw a couple sparrows birds :) it gets very nature active out there :)



We've been enjoying our september flowers, sunflowers, morning glory flowers, marigolds, cosmos, and our snowball bush blossoms :) we're so thankful for the rain in our forecast, and it replenishing the plants and nature :) we've r eally needed the rain :) We have some nice popcorn cobs drying :) we're so happy and excited to enjoy some nice garden popcorn :) we also have some more tomatoes ripening, peppers ripening, and some snap peas growing :) it's been a nice extended gardening season for some of the plants :) We're so proud of our garden, and plants :) Holly and i are super excited to see our halloween pumpkin turning orange, another pumpkin beginning to grow, and lots of gourds growing :) the gourds will make for some awesome additions to our decorative displays :) we're so happy and excited for many more nature walks, and adventures as we get ready to welcome fall season ,and the colors of the season beginning to shine :) it'll be so neat, the gardening season continuing into the fall season :) Thank you all, for joining us on our daily nature adventures :) It's a pure joy, and a wonderful treasure, nature shining all around :)


We've been enjoying the day, it's a nice relaxing ,and peaceful day :) The week is moving along very fast, and baking friday tomorrow, and upcoming weekend :) We have a special happy birthday wish, and shoutout for my brother Charlie :) Today's his birthday :) The kids began the new school year :) the triplets, Brayden, Colby, and Jacob went to school tuesday, and wednesday, and have online learning today and tomorrow :) Mikey and Hunter are doing online learning, and Taylynn had online learning, tuesday, wednesday, and is going to in school learning today and tomorrow :) it's a very different school year state for the kids. they're handling it very well :) we're so proud of them :) We're excited to cheer them on with the new school year :) when they have in school learning, it's currently half days, but could change to full day's in school. Wishing everyone, students, teachers, all of the staff, healthy, safe, and good new school year :)



We've been having lots of fun decorating this week :) It's lots of fun, and seasonal exciting :) greetings from my blossoming halloween town :) woot yeah!!! :) my halloween town is coming together really well :) i decorated my portable dvd player, and getting it set, in position for the haunted movie theater area, which is like a stage area in my halloween town, where i have the themes :) i'm putting lots of detail into my halloween trees, and around the base of my halloween town :) it's looking BOO-eautiful and spook-tacular :) as the days and weeks goes on, i'll be focusing on on some awesome lights displaying in my halloween town :) i have tons of orange lights, and also purple lights :) i'm so very happy and excited to see my halloween town coming together :) i washed 2 hand towels, orange and green, that are fall harvest towels :) they've been in my halloween town since 2008, and each year i display them in the display :) this is such a fun, exciting, and awesome joy getting ready for the new halloween season :) i look forward to continuing to share about our decorating as the month goes on :)



We're enjoying a nice relaxing, and peaceful day :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy, and in good spirits :) it's a really sweet stretch of days, with the spirit of september, and looking forward to lots more times to share in, as fall season is coming up :) it was so  nice visiting with my brother Charlie today, celebrating his birthday :) We've been enjoying our phone calls today, and enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends, and also doing some decorating :) i've organized a lot of halloween decorations, and my halloween town is coming along so very well :) i'm so proud of it, and lots more time to decorate this month, to put all of the finishing touches on it, for the month of October :) i'm very happy and excited :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch some cool youtube videos :) Tomorrow's baking friday! :) We look forward to baking some awesome goodies :) it's gonna be so much fun baking, our countdown to fall season themed baking friday's :) we love sharing our adventures :) keep healthy, safe, and strong everyone :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, and for the very special heart warming joy you all bring to our days, our hearts, and our lives :) You all are wonderfully nice, sweet, and very caring :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) big group happy sunny caring sunny september sunshine friendship hug :) You all give us strength, hope, inspiring us to enjoy each day to the fullest :) Thank you all, for brightening our days and making each day very special :) We're so happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) We look forward to sharing in many more very special times, adventures, and all of the seasonal September traditions and festivities with family, friends, nature, garden harvesting and the wonderful spirit of the season :)



-never lose hope :)



To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying a nice peaceful, and relaxing day, with a nice visit with my brother Charlie, some nice phone calls, decorating for the upcoming season, and also getting ready for a super fun baking friday adventure, and upcoming weekend :) It's a really sweet joy, all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions :) thinking of you, our dear friend :)
my mom says hello :) She says, "i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a nice day" :) awww! :) We love you all lots and lots, our sweet dear angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a nice peaceful day :)We're enjoying the week, and so happy and excited to blossom into lots more special times with everyone, as the season goes on :) fall season is coming :)



Hi angel friends! :) i took a picture of my brother Charlie's garden bench with morning glory flowers :) We enjoyed visiting with my brother :) We've had some replenishing rain in our area today :) It's so nice for the plants, and nature :) i'd love to re-share some nature, garden pictures :) We're looking forward to the return of the september sunshine, and lots more nature adventures :)
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Halloween town is coming together :) Spook-tacular and BOO-eautiful greetings, from my blossoming halloween town :) twas 3 weeks until October,and halloween season arriving :) all of our halloween town friends are on their way to halloween town, for a spook-tacular fun season of 31 days of halloween! :) Bwahahahaha! :) Hi angel friends! :) i'm so happy and excited! :) i'm loving decorating my halloween town :) i'm putting lots of detail into  my halloween trees, and going to be installing lights soon :) i'm also going to decorate theater soon :) this is awesome fun! :) my halloween town will be ready to glow on October 1st :) 


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Replies

CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you and your family are doing well enjoying the day and celebrating with your brother. Glad to hear he's having a nice birthday. Raining here now too, The rain will cool things off a bit this evening, I enjoyed seeing your nature photos and your brothers garden bench looks very nice there. Nice to hear the kids are doing well at school and online learning. Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good evening Hugs to everyone Your Halloween town is looking very festive in the photo today-Stephanie
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

Hey Chris, I love the bench with the morning glories on it. The other flowers are so lovely. The Halloween town is so SCARY! BOO! ha ha :o looks like so much fun. Have you added anything to your collection?
bluemoon29
bluemoon29

WOW! your Halloween town is amazing!! thanks for the eye candy of all the nature pictures:) what a sight for tired eyes and happiness for the soul!

i'm going to work with a local church to help a family from California in need. i'm praying hard for our country, especially today. stay strong and carry on!
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

Hi Chris, glad that you all had a nice visit with your brother for his Bday and thet he liked his cake and gifts.
Your halloween town is coming along nicely, can't wait to see it all finished.
Love the garden pics as always..I love when you capture a pic of a bee on one of your sunflowers, ;-)
Enjoy your baking Friday
Hugs, Jean